The Indiana Court of Appeals held Tuesday that a Lake County court erred when it denied the county’s request for an
injunction to prevent a couple from keeping alpacas on their property to raise for business purposes.

Because a railroad company failed to prove there are no genuine issues of material fact regarding its defense to a breach
of covenant claim against it concerning the maintenance of a dam, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed summary judgment in
its favor and remanded for further proceedings.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Tuesday that he wants legislation on his desk by the end of the week to clarify that the state's
new religious-freedom law does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians.

There is sufficient evidence to create genuine issues of material fact as to whether a shareholder breached its fiduciary
duty owed to other shareholders and whether it committed constructive fraud by remaining silent about two businesses’
financial states, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed the revocation of a woman’s probation after two judges ruled the probation condition
at issue is ambiguous regarding whether and when she had to report an arrest while on probation for a charge that allegedly
occurred before the probation began.

The Indiana Court of Appeals rejected a man’s argument that his two Class B felonies for dealing in cocaine should be
reversed based on prosecutorial misconduct and his limited cross-examination of the state’s confidential informant.

Although the Indiana Court of Appeals disagreed with a defendant’s argument on appeal, it still found the trial court
erred when it ordered him to serve the entirety of his original sentence without any credit time for time spent on home detention.

The Supreme Court of the United States says a Michigan man convicted of murder and armed robbery does not deserve a
new trial even though his lawyer was absent for 10 minutes during the original trial.

The Supreme Court of the United States agreed Monday to hear Kansas' appeal to reinstate death sentences for two brothers
in the fatal shootings of four people and for another man convicted of killing a couple.

Three of Indiana’s five Supreme Court justices vacated transfer on a suppression-of-evidence case, letting stand a divided
Court of Appeals ruling that a trial court abused its discretion by admitting evidence obtained in a questionable pat-down
search.

Again faced with the question of whether a defendant had been entrapped by an undercover detective posing as a prostitute,
the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court, reaching a different conclusion than they had in a similar case a year
earlier.

Indiana’s Republican legislative leaders said Monday they’re working on adding language to a new state law to
make it clear that it doesn’t allow discrimination against gays and lesbians, while Democrats countered that a full
repeal is the only way to stem the widespread criticism.

The company that leased a temporary stage that collapsed in a windstorm killing seven and injuring dozens prevailed in overturning
a trial court ruling in favor of the Indiana State Fair Commission. A dissenting appellate judge wrote that the majority placed
form over substance in shifting liability to the state.

Five years after its founding, the Eskenazi Health Midtown Community Mental Health Medical-Legal Partnership in Indianapolis
is being recognized with a 2015 Outstanding MLP Award from the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.

Lawmakers on Thursday stripped an education bill of major proposed changes to Indiana's open records laws after concerns
were raised about how the measure would impact all government agencies and not just schools.